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i would just like to thank the writers for having colin suggest guillermo be the ”office funny guy” with the amendment ”not that i think you could pull it off” but making no such comment about ”office hot guy” or ”office slut”. Like yeah correct you get him

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The Newsreader season three trailer. We're so back!

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why is there so much anti dragon sentiment in the asoiaf fandom?

i was going to leave this at "fifteen years with no book and two divisive adaptations results in way too much inane discourse". but instead i'm going to talk about metaphors.

i've noticed a desire for neat, didactical, metaphorical readings for everything that makes people uncomfortable about these books. and discomfort with a topic is something i understand, but it cannot be resolved by forcing a reading on the text which may align with your personal or political views, but is actually misconstruing the text. in asoiaf, this usually centres around the targaryens because the incest, the dragons, their alleged magical bloodline, the lost mythic empire, and that someone from their line is prophesied to quite literally save the world - are all divisive story elements. people have correctly identified that despite the power fantasy of their conceptualisation, martin is not writing them as merely self indulgent, aspirational figures, but they've also overcorrected that into 'actually every element of their characterisation reveals one true didactic intent'. so, every instance of incest must be a metaphor for auto cannibalism, the dragons are only a nuke metaphor, the sense of superiority is a stand-in for supremacist ideology etc.

and the thing is, yes martin has sometimes used these elements as such. the dance is a story about the family self cannibalising itself, in part, as a consequence of the institutionalised incest, since under that practice every claimant to the throne was obviously going to be a close family member, which led to all the kinslaying. and the dragons historically have been used to maintain the hegemony of the crown through the threat of terrible, magical violence. this is true. but it's also not all he has to say on the topic. this is one idea he's exploring among a lot of other (often contradictory) ideas. yes, their habit of forgoing exogamous marriage alliances forced them into a precarious position post-dance once they lost their dragons and there is a point being made here about their dynastic decline. but at the same time, egg's failed attempts to forcibly marry his sons (one of whom was gay) out of the family is also saying something about both arranged exogamous westerosi and endogamous targaryen marriages being materially oppressive in almost the exact same ways, and that simply pivoting to the former wouldn't have saved them because the real enemy is westerosi feudal patriarchy, the system under which daughters are exchanged for securing political (or dragon) power and all second sons are subordinate to the first. that in a way, everyone is eating their young. someone very much into the 'all incest as auto cannibalism' metaphor is ignoring this, the way someone who only thinks of dragons as nukes is ignoring the very obvious reworking of them as a symbol of change and freedom in dany's storyline. and this is the problem at hand. the thing about metaphors is that they work up to a certain extent, but often people treat them as the only acceptable reading of a text, instead of something that is in conversation with a lot of other ideas simultaneously being explored by the story. all this leads to, is the flattening of a complex story into a reductive, didactic message of their preference. and, of course, to reduce every fantasy element in these books to simply an analogue for some real world topic, is to take the fantasy intrigue out of the fantasy series.

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You can be on here and say like "This character got their house burned down as a consequence of leaving the stove on" and the fandom masses will descend on you like "We really shouldn't glorify house-burning-down as a consequence against characters. It's really problematic. It's really problematic to say house-burning-down is something people deserve. The narrative shouldn't have done that."

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I know I've said this a hundred times but if you're worried about palestinian fundraisers being scams at least consider donating to MSF. It's a highly reputable organization which has broken its long-standing neutrality to denounce Israel in front of the UN. Here's all the aid MSF is providing to Gazans (documentation available in multiple languages).

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You must operate as the family you are.

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | SEASON 5 FINALE

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See? I know you better than anyone.

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

| SEASON 5

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It's alright, I'll give you a hand.

Thanks, Lazlo.

What We Do in the Shadows | Season 5

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wwdits 5x08 "The Roast" + nandermo moments i am totally normal about (she lied, like a liar)

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019-) SEASON 5, EPISODE 6: URGENT CARE

crazy bitch, horny bitch, boring bitch, queen bitch.

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and then he broke all of his bones. tragic

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Delighted to see the writer’s room functions in the exact same manner as me writing fic hunched over my laptop in bed with my copy of tvl close at hand

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The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved - Miles Cleveland Goodwin

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hes working through his feelings about lestat

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

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@pscentral event 29: warm & cool

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